gilmore606
14d ago
I feel like this is the memetics equivalent of great-man historical theories, this idea that ideas just pop into the zeitgeist via random recombination, and if we could just prevent the bad ones we'd all be doing great. I think it's more likely that ideas like wokeness are inevitable outgrowths of previous conditions like any other historical force or event; you might kill every wokie, but if society and its infosphere are primed for wokeness, it'll just pop right back out.
gilmore606
28d ago
me too thanks
gilmore606
6mo ago
Never have I so desperately wanted people on themotte to work themselves into a shoot.
gilmore606
1mo ago
I find Lae'zel to be the most attractive woman in the history of videogames, but that may be down to personality.
gilmore606
5mo ago
I have always cynically assumed that the real purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons is to blackmail western governments into continuing enthusiastic support, via the 'Samson option'.
gilmore606
20d ago
Art isn't for communicating information, it's for communicating viewpoints, "what-it's-like-to-be"s. If I write a song true enough, I can make you feel for a minute what it was like to be me losing my wife. (I can't actually do that, but some people can.) The only purpose of art is to make us feel less alone, which is why AI art is a contradiction and is fake and gay.
gilmore606
11mo ago
the post seems explicitly designed to undermine race relations
More and more, it seems reality is explicitly designed to do that.
gilmore606
1mo ago
people in the profession both benefit from complexity and personally enjoy adding it
This is an accurate description of software development for the past 10 years.
gilmore606
1yr ago
This makes sense if you consider that Yud takes Roko's Basilisk seriously. He's clearly realized this is his best contribution to its existence.
gilmore606
1yr ago
governments are very motivated to prevent tax evasion
bit of a tangent, but in light of MMT is this even true anymore?
gilmore606
11mo ago
How could the ability to do Raven's matrices measure only "academic aptitude" and nothing to do with core mental processing power?
gilmore606
4mo ago
all the shit and excessive taxation I've had to endure
oh you poor dear. I guess we should destroy our culture to make it up to your poor beleaguered brahmin head. Please sir accept my apologies for the excessive taxation.
gilmore606
3mo ago
not much more so than an artillery shell
This doesn't matter at all. The aggregate effect of nukes dropped on every major city (which, factually, is what would happen) would be the total collapse of the modern agricultural-industrial machine, which would mean mass death in the 80%+ range. This counts as a nuclear apocalypse by any definition.
gilmore606
20d ago
The squared-circle is the most common example, but then I am sort of thinking about it already and if I turn mad I might worship it.
This is my impression of how the trinity doctrines came about.
gilmore606
20d ago
Adding onto this, I will be interested in AI art on the day that it becomes like-something to be an AI, and those AIs create art to express what that's like to us. I'm looking forward to that very much, but I don't expect to see it in my lifetime.
gilmore606
9mo ago
But qualia is posited to be experiential
This is just question begging; experiences are no more real than qualia, if they can't affect behavior by definition.
gilmore606
1yr ago
torture for them to be forced to collaborate with relatively shitty programmers
This is mostly because we want them to notice our brilliant optimizations and beautiful abstractions in PR review, and decorate our PR with :thumbsup: and :+100: and :sunglasses: emojis. But it all just goes past them and they Approve without comment.
gilmore606
1yr ago
making someone uninterested do those things will make them good
Someone who is uninterested will never become good anyway, so you might as well encourage them to do these things and find out if they are or not. I have worked 25 years in this industry and never met a developer I respected who was not in love with it.
gilmore606
9mo ago
My headcanon has always been that he's destroying Twitter on purpose as a favor to humanity. So far everything tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond.
gilmore606
1yr ago
You can't justify morality by appealing to morality, so what basis is left beyond aesthetics?
gilmore606
5mo ago
Rare is the story that is interesting even while historically accurate
Hang on, aren't you the guy who wrote those great blogposts about Midway? Hoist by your own petard.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Yes this! We have an entire forum site here and we have one thread per week. It's absurd. Why do we do this? datasecretslox seems to work just fine as a normal forum.
gilmore606
1yr ago
best I can do is a deepfake of Xi Jinping pulling his eyebrows out with tweezers, take it or leave it
gilmore606
1yr ago
Sure, I'm with you, I think we should build it, and we clearly will regardless. I just don't think there's any way to make sure it's safe.
How are you guys aware of any of this? I googled and it appears you're talking about literal teenage girls. 'shoeonhead' is literally a teenage girl who looks like a titty streamer. 'Destiny' is literally a fat beardo gamer kid. Is this really the forefront of public discourse now? If so, is there anything left to save? Nick Land was right.
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